[DAILYMAIL.CO.UK] A group describing itself as a 'Militant Resistance' to a 'corrupt police state' has offered $5000 for details of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson's whereabouts, MailOnline can reveal.
Officer Wilson, 28, has been in hiding on paid leave ever since he bumped off unarmed teenager Michael Brown, 18, on 9 August.
Now, in one of a series of incendiary tweets the RbG Black Rebels have stated, 'We are paying $5k cash for location of Ofc. Darren Wilson. Real $, no joke, no crime we just wana get his photo an ask him a few questions.'
And though the RbG Black Rebels insist this is not a bounty on the officer's head, the chilling offer is set in the context of a stream of violent online posts boasting of 'combat experience', 'stockpiling' ammunition, cleaning out gun stores and being #WarReady.
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What is that hashtag anyways? I didn't get my breakfast menu, so I'm #WarReady. My clothes from yesterday still smell good enough, so they are #WoreReady. I'm a viking, so I'm #OarReady #ThorReady
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We'll chant till we're all hot and sweaty!
We'll make a mess eating spaghetti!
We'll sharpen machetes
And sleep without teddies
Because we is wah-wah-wah-ready!
[THESMOKINGGUN] A 350-pound Walmart shopper was arrested yesterday after he was found sitting atop five stolen rib eye steaks in the seat of a motorized scooter that he was riding around the South Carolina store.
Rodney Fowler, 43, was spotted Tuesday afternoon placing the steaks in his scooter by a Walmart loss prevention officer, according to a police report.
âSuspect sat on the steaks and exited the store passing all points of sale, without attempting to pay for said merchandise,â cops noted.
The 5â 5â Fowler was then confronted by the Walmart worker and escorted back into the store, where he was later arrested by police for shoplifting. âDue to his size, the suspect was cuffed using two pairs of cuffs,â investigators noted.
Pictured above, Fowler spent about three hours in police custody before being released without bond. The fate of the rib eye steaks Fowler sat upon is not addressed in the police report (though hereâs hoping Walmart did not re-shelve the pressed meat).
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[REUTERS] Animal rights advocates outraged that a SeaWorld float is included in next week's lineup for Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade unveiled plans on Wednesday for a naked protest outside the landmark store. Good idea. Get nekkid in downtown Noo Yawk on the fourth Thursday in November. Hope the temperature's climbed back up out of the 30s by then.
Demonstrators wearing nothing but black and white body paint to resemble orcas will squeeze into a bathtub outside the midtown Manhattan store on Thursday to mimic orcas held in captivity and to repeat last year's demand - which was denied - that the float be excluded, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said.
"It is unacceptable to confine orcas to barren tanks that, to them, are the size of a bathtub," said Delcianna Winders, PETA's deputy general counsel.
The naked protest in temperatures predicted to hover just above freezing rides a wave of controversy surrounding SeaWorld after the 2013 documentary film "Blackfish" alleged the park mishandled the huge sea mammals. The marine theme park uses orcas in its aquatic shows.
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They can tie in their event with the WestboroFeminists for cat-calling and ogling denunciations. A two-for.
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As a guy, I'm all for boobage and nekkid (although the quality at most protests is decidedly sub-optimal), but when did being naked add moral authority and righteousness to a cause?
[CNN] An Ebola survivor has been quarantined in India after his semen tested positive for the virus, health officials there have announced.
The 26-year-old man, an Indian national, traveled to New Delhi from Liberia on November 10, almost two months after he was hospitalized in the West African nation after showing symptoms of the illness, India's health ministry said in a statement.
He was released from the Liberian hospital on September 30 with documents declaring him free of clinical signs linked to Ebola, the ministry added.
As a precautionary measure, Indian authorities carried out tests on his body fluids, which confirmed traces of the virus in his semen, the statement said.
"Currently, this person is not having any symptoms of the disease. However, denial ain't just a river in Egypt... he would be kept under isolation in the special health facility of (the) Delhi Airport Health Organization, till such time his body fluids test negative and he is found medically fit to be discharged," it said.
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The son-in-law of Tunisia's deposed dictator has been sentenced to six months in prison on gun possession charges after returning from exile to face outstanding cases against him. After the verdict was pronounced late Tuesday, Slim Chiboub was taken to Mornag prison, according to his lawyer Wissam Saidi. TheReal Slim Shibouby...
One of the greatest grievances against dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was the influence peddling and kickbacks obtained by his extended family in business deals. Several fled and were tried in absentia.
Protesters ransacked Chiboub's house after he fled and it was held up as a sign of the opulence enjoyed by the dictator's family. He was convicted in absentia in 2011 on two counts of gun possession and received sentences of five years and a one year. In Tuesday's trial, the judge tossed out one verdict and reduced sentence on the other to six months.
Several other cases against Chiboubremain open, including one over a deal with French industrial giant Alstom. His next trial is set for December 10, according to his lawyers.
Chiboub, a 55-year-old businessman and former football club owner, said recently in an interview he was ready to return from exile and face justice in Tunisia.
His return comes at a time when many officials from Ben Ali's time are being rehabilitated and participating in politics once more.
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Shake, shake, shake...
Shake, shake, shake...
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[ABCNEWS.GO] The military colonel who briefly seized control of Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that... after the longtime president stepped down was chosen Wednesday to serve as prime minister, casting doubt that the army will stay out of politics as demanded by the international community.
Lt. Col. Isaac Yacouba Zida said his appointment by the new president of the transitional government showed "a mark of confidence" in the country's security and defense forces, and pledged his commitment to organizing a poll in 2015.
The main objective of the government is to "hold free, fair and transparent, and equitable elections as well as to undertake important reforms for the future of the country," the 49-year-old said.
The appointment Wednesday of Zida was read out by decree at the presidential palace by Alain Ouattara, the assistant secretary general of the government.
It came a day after longtime diplomat Michel Kafando, who is from the same Mossi ethnic group as Zida, was sworn in as president of the transitional government to lead the West African country to elections in a year's time. The selection of Kafando was welcomed by the United States and others, who praised the country for pressing ahead with a civilian transitional government.
The military initially had picked Zida to lead Burkina Faso after it swooped in and took control in the power vacuum after longtime President Blaise Compaore resigned on Oct. 31 after nearly 30 years in power. Compaore's resignation was forced by angry demonstrators who set the parliament on fire to show their displeasure over his attempts to seek another term in office.
The international community urged the military to swiftly hand back power or face crippling economic sanctions. It was not immediately clear whether the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... would accept an army colonel playing such a pivotal role in the transition.
The United States had encouraged Kafando "to select individuals to serve in the transitional government who are firmly committed to a democratic, civilian government."
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Two US Naval supply ships have collided in the Gulf of Aden at the beginning of a replenishment operation.
USNS Amerlia Earhart and USNS Walter S. Diehl crashed into one another with only minor damage caused to each vessel, according to the US Navy. No crew members were injured in the incident and the ships are now continuing with their assigned missions in the Gulf.
Though they'll shortly have two new commanding officers...
The US Navy said that it would conduct an investigation into the cause of the collision.
Despite a decline in attacks in recent years, the Gulf of Aden still remains an area which witnesses hijackings by Somali pirates, forcing an international naval coalition to maintain a presence in the region.
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Two new commanding officers and two new deck cleaners.
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Replenshing operations mean some pretty close ships. I'm not sure this would justify replacing the command, although I suspect promotions might be over for the commanders.
Of course I was never in the Navy, I just read a lot about them.
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#6 I guess Amelia and Walter were, just a bit too much, attracted to each other.
Whatever happened to Don't Ask, Don't Tell?
All snark aside, this is just another example of how doing mil stuff is like running with scissors - explosive fragmentation scissors. In civilian life, a screw-up means you have to fish a fork out of the garbage disposal or reboot the server because your code skipped checking for an error condition. Maybe expensive, but seldom fatal. Nobody was hurt here, but often times a mil screw-up means people die. Just something to think about. Hey, anyone up for a night carrier landing?
[NEWS.YAHOO] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... executed on Wednesday a man who donned women's clothing in a bid to escape after shooting dead a soldier and police officer, state media said.
Salih bin Yateem bin Salih al-Qarni was beheaded in the southwestern city of Abha, the official Saudi Press Agency said.
Qarni was intially placed in durance vile Please don't kill me! on other charges and was transported in an official vehicle by the soldier and a member of the Muttawa inquisitors religious police.
"He shot them with a gun that he was carrying," the SPA said, without explaining how he obtained the weapon.
After stealing the keys from the security officer driving the vehicle, Qarni chewed some narcotic qat "and disguised himself in women's clothing" in an attempt to flee, but was recaptured, it said.
Saudi women are required to cover from head to toe, often with only their eyes exposed.
The report did not say when the escape bid occurred.
Qarni is the latest of 69 Saudis and foreigners executed in the kingdom this year, despite international concern.
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I heard a theory that the Egyptians had made a trip, but islam had not been invented yet. Still, Selim I and Suleiman the Magnificent arguably ruled the most powerful empire of its day, and would have had access to all the knowledge of dar islam, yet had crude maps of Spain and Britain. So bullshit, unless the true believers burned that library and all record copies.
Islam did have its influence on discover the new world - the Islamic culture was so odious that desperate men loaded onto leaky vessels to sail over the edge of the world to avoid dar islam, and let's not forget the copious slave trade of dar islam.
[AMERICA.ALJAZEERA] Four men who bludgeoned a pregnant woman to death outside one of Pakistain's top courts because they objected to her marriage were sentenced to death Wednesday, their defense lawyer said.
A Pakistain court handed the father, brother, cousin and another relative of 25-year-old Farzana Iqbal death sentences and fined each $1,000, lawyer Mansoor Afridi said. Another cousin was sentenced to 10 years in prison and also fined $1,000.
Pakistain currently has a moratorium on executions, meaning death-row prisoners are effectively sentenced to life imprisonment. But Afridi said that the family planned to appeal, and that the verdict was "a decision based on sensationalism."
The state prosecutor was not immediately available for comment. "I can say no more!"
Hundreds of women are put to death every year in so-called honor killings, often carried out by husbands or relatives as a punishment for alleged adultery or other illicit sexual behavior that constitutes a perceived threat to conservative social traditions. The crime is so common that it rarely merits more than a paragraph in newspapers.
But this particular case attracted attention because it took place on a busy street in broad daylight outside the provincial High Court, on a main downtown thoroughfare where Iqbal -- who was three months pregnant -- had testified that her marriage to Muhammed Iqbal was genuine, in response to a false charge of kidnapping brought by her family.
Pakistain Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif ... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf... described the incident back in May as a "brutal killing" that was "totally unacceptable." U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay was also among those who condemned the killing.
"I do not even wish to use the phrase honor killing," Pillay said in a statement issued at the time. "There is not the faintest vestige of honor in killing a woman in this way."
In the incident that took place in late May, nearly 20 members of Farzana Iqbal's extended family, including her father and brothers, had waited outside the building that houses the high court of Lahore. As the couple walked up to the main gate, the relatives fired shots in the air and tried to snatch her from her husband, The News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.
When she resisted, her relatives started beating her, eventually pelting her with bricks picked up from a nearby construction site, according to the victim's husband and lawyer. Even Paks who have tracked violence against women expressed shock at the brutal and public nature of slaying.
"I have not heard of any such case in which a woman was stoned to death, and the most shameful and worrying thing is that this woman was killed outside a courthouse," Zia Awan, a prominent lawyer and human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... activist told the AP in May.
Muhammed Iqbal later admitted that he had killed his first wife to marry Farzana. He escaped punishment because his son forgave him. According to Pak law, a woman's next of kin can forgive her murderers.
Since Pak women are often killed by close relations, this loophole allows thousands of murderers to escape without punishment. Awan said those who commit violence against women are also often acquitted or handed light sentences due to poor police work and faulty prosecutions.
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[DAWN] Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif ...Pak dynastic politician, brother of PM Nawaz Sharif, chief minister of Punjab... on Wednesday took notice of the deaths of eight infants who died overnight in an incubator ward in District Teaching Hospital Sargodha.
He also said that their deliveries were performed by midwives who were unable to provide frontline medical care that is imperative for a newborn baby.
Sikandar Hayat Warraich, the front man for the District Teaching Hospital Sargodha, told Dawn via telephone that premature births coupled with low birth weight led to the deaths of the infants.
He also said that their deliveries were performed by midwives who were unable to provide frontline medical care that is imperative for a newborn baby.
The spokesperson added that 26 infants had been admitted in the hospital out of which 10 are said to be at death's door. The spokesperson furthermore said the hospital only had a capacity of 25 nursery beds, but as there was no hospital of its kind in the district, it often had to deal with over admission.
Meanwhile, ...back at the Hubba Hubba Club, Nunzio had his hands full of angry bleached blonde... a three-member team has been constituted by the chief minister to probe the deaths, with instructions to submit a report within 24 hours.
A report published in 2012 found that Pakistain ranks fourth globally in terms of the number of preterm births, with India on the top, followed by China and Nigeria as third and fourth, respectively.
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Where was the F22 + F35 when two [redcued from four] Russki "Bear" Bombers flew "around" Guam last week???
Like any good Madonna fan I'd caught the "Bears" during their flight - INCIDENTALLY, FROM MY VANTAGE POINT METHINKS ITS MORE CORRECT TO SAY THE "BEARS" FLEW O-V-E-R PARTS OF CENTRAL + SOUTHERN GUAM, NOT "AROUND".
AFAIK not a single US intercept of any sort took place - none via Drone, PATRIOT, USN CVN TacFighter, or USN SLAAM, etc, + not even one Air Raid alarm.
TAKE THAT, CARIBBEAN + CARIB UNION, YOU HEAR ME, DARTH VLAD PUTIN VIOLATED US SOVEREIGNTY BY FLYING OVER GUAM FIRST, NOT YOUSE OR THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE!
GUAM DEMANDS TO BE BOMBED BY VLAD IN THE NAME OF GLOBALISM!
Also good for deterring CHINA + PLA Airborne, at least until the ISIS/ISIL attacks Russia.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A Christian has been appointed governor of Indonesia's Jakarta, the capital city of the country with the world's largest Moslem population, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported. Did they check to make sure he's a virgin?
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama's is the city's first Christian governor in 50 years, despite protest from Islamic hardliners who insisted the job be reserved for a Moslem.
Purnama, who took oath of office in a Wednesday ceremony conducted by President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo, is also the first ethnic Chinese to assume the role.
Widodo is Puranma's predecessor. The new governor had served as his deputy.
An outspoken figure, Purnama has a track record of combating graft and cutting red tape.
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Sorry - standards should remain the same. No waivers, no special programs, because in combat in the Ranger's type of missions, there is no room for anyone that cannot perform to the current standard.
That includes all the stuff that requires upper body strength which traditionally washes out most females.
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TW?, agreed but... A gold medalst female runner can run faster than most of men but there are many, many men (some of them 110 kg rugby players) who can run faster. Army and most particularly Special Forces require excellence. Sometimes a unit has to walk for fourty miles in a night or face anihilation. If someone is not able to walk at that speed he would have to be left behind.
Sometimes the people in this unit have to climb the one hundred feet high Pointe du Hoc or the entire D-DAY operation will fail, thousands of soldiers will be killed and another landing will have to be made a year later.
It is not that easy to find women who can climb _and_ run, and carry heavy loads, _and_ walk fast and for long time.
Not to mention a little problem. What happens when a unit has to let someone behind because he/she is slowing them. Evolution has made us be comparatively indifferemt to the death of a man respective to the death of a woman: since men don't need nine months for having children they are expendable while women are precious. But in situations whre one member of the unit has to be left behind that half-chivalrous, half-darwinian concern for the life of women can lead the unit leader to take the wrong decision and the unit being anihilated.
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When they do away with 'Mens' and 'Womens' Olympic events and just make it direct competition regards of color, race, gender, call me.
The 'other side' has not qualms about Political Correctness, judges, or politicians. They simply want to win and are, as observed and reported, unmoved by special interests debates. War is the ultimate Darwinian environment.
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Here Cindy, since you're not jumping any ammo, med supplies, or batteries, you can have the rigger tie this mortar baseplate to the bottom of your rucksack. Don't forget the rounds, we're jumping in two rounds per team member. I've got the tube. SGT Jones has the bipod. You ok with that ?
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When you watch a womans basketball game, baseball game, etc., they have just as much competitive spirit as men.
A battle on the home turf (Israeli womens homes in Israel, their home town of Kobane-Syria) when surrounded and out numbered women can step up and turn the tide of battle. They fight according to a different ways and means. One that is unexpected by the enemy if they have never fought a woman's brigade.
A video shows a woman's brigade that expelled an entire force of ISIS from a fortress at the loss of only two of their own.
A woman's brigade may or may not do well in a foreign jungle battle field, a foreign desert battle field, or on the high seas.
But if you are an enemy that is trying to destroy the home town or home turf of a well trained, well armed women's brigade. "Hell hath no fury" than that of a women's brigade.
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Another thing I am trying to say in the above comment is that there could be more benefit to a nation's defense if women's military training was segregated from men's military training, due to differences in fighting style and technique required for real success on the battle field. i.e., the kurdish women's units methodology may be a success, and possibly a first in centuries of military history.
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Ebbo - its one thing to fight as a line unit, and the YPG Kurdish femals certainly have. But its nearly a completely different thing to go into spec ops, especially Rangers. They're who gets called when the SEALs get stuck and need a rescue. They have very different operations methods, and require far more than most male soldiers can handle - there is a high washout rate, from injuries alone, of Ranger candidates, in addition to the washout from inability to perform. Stone Mountain gets a lot of them. No sleep, cold, and lots and lots of forced marches and climbing. Then there's the swamps and riverine where you are immersed for long stretches of time - physiology is not kind to females since they do have an open body cavity down there exposed to infiltration by swamp water that males do not have. Not being sexist, its just basic physiology.
The Ranger is a different beast. And no amount of political posturing can change the basic differences in physiology versus the differences in mission. The only way they will get women through this is to drop the standards, and if they do that, more will die, and there will be less success. Special Ops is not the place to play social science experimenter.
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We fight our own way ... and we fight desperate and dirty when pressed to that last extremity. Not in the classical male way, honor and chivalry and all that ... but for our babies and homes.
I honestly can't say much about the fitness of the average American woman for Ranger duty - I suspect that not many of our sex are fit enough, Olympic-class fit enough, which is what I suspect it would take - but give women the tools and the training, and - most importantly - the motivation of backs-against-the-wall and protecting our homes and children ... the results might be surprising.
The Israeli and Kurdish women are in that very situation. And women fight dirty and vicious - I knew that from junior high, when a guy fight would result in a bloody nose or two, but a girl fight would result for an ambulance called for one or both parties.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[REUTERS] Animal rights advocates outraged that a SeaWorld float is included in next week's lineup for Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade unveiled plans on Wednesday for a naked protest outside the landmark store.
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